Blake's 7 - 3x01 - Aftermath
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Blake's 7. Full Episodes and Seasons in playlists on YouTube - http://bit.ly/Blakes7Movies Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for broadcast on BBC1. Four 13-episode series of Blake's 7 were broadcast between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also created the Daleks for Doctor Who. The script editor was Chris Boucher. The series was inspired by a range of fictional media including Passage to Marseilles, The Dirty Dozen, Robin Hood, Brave New World, Star Trek, classic Westerns and real-world political conflicts in South America and Israel. The series is set in a future age of interstellar travel and follows the exploits of a group of renegades and convicted criminals. Gareth Thomas played the eponymous character Roj Blake, a political dissident who is arrested, tried and convicted on false charges, and then deported from Earth to a prison planet. He and two fellow prisoners, treated as expendable, are sent to board and investigate an abandoned alien spacecraft. They get the ship working, commandeer it, rescue two more prisoners, and are joined by an alien guerrilla with telepathic abilities. In their attempts to stay ahead of their enemies and inspire others to rebel, they encounter a wide variety of cultures on different planets, and are forced to confront human and alien threats. The group conducts a campaign against the totalitarian Terran Federation until an intergalactic war occurs. Blake disappears and Kerr Avon then leads the group. When their spacecraft is destroyed and one group member dies, they commandeer an inferior craft and a base on a distant planet, from which they continue their campaign. In the final episode Avon finds Blake and, suspecting him of betraying the group, kills him. The group is then shot by Federation guards, who surround Avon in the final scene. Blake's 7 was popular from its first broadcast, watched by approximately 10 million people in the UK and shown in 25 other countries. Although many tropes of space opera are present, such as spaceships, robots, galactic empires and aliens, its budget was inadequate for its interstellar narrative. It remains well regarded for its strong characterisation, ambiguous morality and pessimistic tone. Critical responses to the programme have been polarised; reviewers praised its dystopian themes and "enormous sense of fun", and broadcaster Clive James described it as "classically awful". A limited range of Blake's 7 merchandise was issued. Books, magazines and annuals were published. The BBC released music and sound effects from the series, and several companies made Blake's 7 toys and models. Four video compilations were released between 1985 and 1990, and the entire series was released on videocassette starting in 1991 and re-released in 1997. It was subsequently released as four DVD boxed sets between 2003 and 2006. The BBC produced two audio dramas in 1998 and 1999 that feature some original cast members, and were broadcast on Radio 4. Although proposals for live-action and animated remakes have not been realised, Blake's 7 has been revived with two series of official audio dramas, a comedic short film, a series of fan-made audio plays, and a proposed series of official novels.
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How old was the child who wrote this garbage,5 ?
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Pretty insulting to the audience to think we wouldn't remember all those mashed up clips of spaceships from previous seasons - even the collision in the last episode, and Space City recast as an alien battleship?! I guess producers assumed it was more than a year ago and audiences would've forgotten, in the days before VHS, DVDs and internet binge watching.
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Blake's 7 is so ace. In the late 70's we sat huddled in the school library at lunch time talking about what last night's episode mean't and what might happen next... Which tells you loads about the late 70's and how awful the punk era was. Remember this if you are prone to nostalgia of that time...
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destroying the liberator was a mistake for this program. >.> It was like destroying the Enterprise and then just carrying on in some random ship!
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Somebody should have told that girl how to use bow and arrow ... because she always keeps hold of the string insteat of the "stick bit" when releasing it.
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i am 62 now and it is embarsing to watch this, but i still love it because i was 20 ish when this came out and it was better than anything on the telly in them days. now special effects, cgi etc makes everything the same, what is the point of watching anything now? it is all false, life now is false. celebrities that aren't celebrities, no talent, voice, pitch and note correctores, all singers now are false, but they are good looking so that's ok lol. the world is crap now, all you minus 40 year olds, when us old foggies talk about the good old days, trust us, we had very little but there was no depression, no aha (maybe adhd can't keep up, they invent a new excuse for bad parenting every week) whatsoever, you didn't lock your house or car, when you went for a drink, you might come home with a black eye, but never a stab wound. i could go on forever about pub opening hours or having a real wage packet with real money in or how we relaxed on sundays because the shops were shut, or how we used to get tripple time for working sundays. but nobody ever listens to old people so i will shut up and just watch everything deteriorate.
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Sure, by today's standards, the special effects seem rather lame. But I still love the way the story unfolds. I really do wish they would do a remake of this series. Thanks for sharing.
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The "PC" police finally got a black person on the show after two wonderful seasons.
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Good trick, have the majority of the battle happen between episodes. Oh and don't mention details of the war.
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4:08 Sorry I zoned out for a second. What were we supposed to do to the strangers?
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they really needed Derek Meddings and Nick Adler to do the miniatures... https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/cc/57/32/cc5732ada2e45c3df23badae3d1bf643.jpg
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Why did Jenna leave?
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I love the show because I grew up with it...
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I like Dayna's Artemis getup.
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Paul Darrow most underrated actor ever Avon is so cool
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Ah the mind blow8ng effects. The ham acting. Alien worlds that looklike a factory on a Sunday, a quarry or the seaside. Blake's seven made doctor who look like star wars. Great characters and solid story's though. Remake it already!
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Amazing how everybody speaks the universal language ! The life shuttles probably have the same landing criteria ,plus they land close to each other to simplify rescue ,each has a homing beacon?
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The late Alan Lake does a great job as the maniacal Chel here. At the time of filming Alan was being treated for alcoholism and was in the process of going through separation from his wife, Diana Dors. He threw his efforts into his work and hence the strong performance here. He sadly died in 1984 only a few months after Diana. A great actor sadly missed.
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Futuristic Ray Charles?
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they let a good ship get wrecked.sods.
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